Or perhaps, within the Westminster bubble, the question was ‘who didn’t?’
I’ll post the source details of this quote as soon as someone can comment and tell me who wrote it, and in which year…
You don’t have to be Andrew Marr to tell the difference between a Miliband left and a Corbyn left. Andrew Marr and his Guardianista commentariat chums are Miliband left, so is most of the parliamentary Labour Party, but the membership is nowhere near them; they like the beard, the honesty, and the fact that he shakes hands with Palestine freedom fighters… The party is now completely divided. 2020 may be a dim, far-off date in the diary but whichever side will win there’s going to be internecine warfare in the meantime. In fact, any manner of things could happen. (Watch Keir Starmer rise and rise.)
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Astonishingly, it’s an entry from Sasha Swire’s diary, dated 20th August 2015. Published in Diary of an MP’s Wife.
Here’s a bit more of it…
The only comfort is that the press is now completely discredited, following Leveson, then the completely miscalled election result, and now a complete failure to foresee Jeremy Corbyn’s romp to the finishing line. How did they fail to notice a resurgent quasi-lurch to the left? I mean, think Greece, think Scotland. … They ignore the fact that he is unelectable because he speaks to their lost socialist souls, unlike Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson, Yvette Cooper. Blair, who is making ridiculous, damaging interventions, thinks he should be credited for saving the Labour Party when really, he destroyed it. The party is now completely divided. 2020 may be a dim, far-off date in the diary but whichever side will win there’s going to be internecine warfare in the meantime. In fact, any manner of things could happen. (Watch Keir Starmer rise and rise.)
In case you’ve forgotten, Swire is a Tory MP’s wife and her book, when it was published in 2020, infuriated many because it proved what we’d all found out while we were trying to take back the Labour Party – that MPs all spend their time thinking about careers, houses, income and status. Policies and constituents are mere bargaining chips to get them there. No wonder they fought tooth and nail to get Corbyn off the agenda.
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